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A Philadelphia doctor is trying to determine how prevalent Tay-Sachs is in the Irish community.
Dr. Adele Schneider, director of Einstein Medical Center�s clinical genetics, is leading a study to determine whether carrier screening should be recommended for anyone of Irish descent. The goal of the study is to determine how high the carrier rate of the disease is in people of Irish descent.
Tay-Sachs Disease is a fatal disease that is passed on to children when both parents are carriers of the gene mutation.
While children born with the disease may appear normal when born, but symptoms of the disease will appear when the child is about four to six months old. They begin to lose growth skills, like sitting up or rolling over, which will progress to loss of sight, hearing, and ability to swallow. Children diagnosed with the disease usually die by five years old.
�It�s devastating,� said Schneider.
Historically, the disease has been prevalent in Jewish populations, however Dr. Schneider recently noted an increasing prevalence of the disease in Irish populations, such as with the Manning and Harney families of Chester County.
Kathryn Harney, whose son, Nathan, was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs Disease when he was 10 months old, said that had she known that she and her husband could have been carriers, they would have gotten screened.
�I wish we would have known earlier, but I�m glad we know now,� said Kathryn, a resident of Downingtown. �I mean, it is what it is. We can�t change it but I�m just glad we got a diagnosis and that we can be part of making sure that this stops.�
Kathryn and her husband Aaron encouraged their relatives to get tested, and two of Kathryn�s sisters were found to be carriers. The Harneys are trying to raise awareness about the research being led by Schneider and Einstein Medical.
Schneider said that after hearing about Nathan�s diagnosis, along with that of two other Irish children, she became aware for the need of information about Tay-Sachs Disease in Irish populations. Of those three children, only Nathan is still alive.
�There is no good literature with a good carrier rate for Tay-Sachs in the Irish,� said Schneider. �As a consequence, there is no guideline for doctors to screen pregnant women for the Tay-Sachs if they�re Irish.�
The study is testing 1,000 adults who have at least three Irish grandparents to determine a dependable carrier rate for the disease. The carrier screening test is free to eligible participants. The study is funded through the National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association of Delaware Valley.
�It�s an easy test to do,� said Schneider. �It�s a little blood test. Everybody who gets the test gets genetic counseling first and there�s an informed consent.�
According to Amybeth Weaver, a genetic counselor for Einstein Medical, the technology for screening for the disease has improved in recent years.
Sheri Manning was mother to Dylan James, who was diagnosed at 17 months, and died at the age of 4, in August 2006.
�(After diagnosis) I felt like a part of me was dying, too,� said Sherri. �You do need to know the risk of having a child if you are a carrier.�
She encouraged her family members to get tested once Schneider began her study. Both Sherri and her husband have one sibling who is also a carrier, as is Sherri�s father.
�It�s extremely difficult to watch your son fade away without being able to do anything,� said Sherri. �We look at the day he died as one of the most devastating days. He never walked, he never talked. It�s like every day was different, we were losing bit by bit.�
Sherri also said that Dylan died in her arms after no longer being able to sustain his food.
�After he took his last breath, he gave me the biggest smile in the world, and that�s stayed with me,� said Sherri. �It helps me cope because I know he�s with God.�
Sherri and her family still raise awareness about Tay-Sachs in their community, giving out wristbands and information about the disease.
�We do it in honor of him, and in memory of him.�
Schneider and some of her co-workers are also trying to educate the general public about the disease, by participating in Philadelphia�s Irish Festival in 2012, as well as at other community events, and are planning to continue to reach out through events in Philadelphia area.
�We�re trying to perhaps use some of the other (ancestry) Irish groups just to reach the people that would qualify for the study,� said Weaver.
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CONSHOHOCKEN — Conshohocken may not have been at the crossroads of a California firefighter's coast-to-coast bike ride, but Conshohocken Fire Chief Steve Phipps was determined to make the stop a memorable one nonetheless.
On a 3,500-mile cycling mission to raise money for his quadriplegic sister, John Byrne, an engineer with CAL FIRE/San Luis Obispo County Fire Station in Nipomo, Calif., had left the Golden Gate Bridge on the morning of Sept. 9, with a goal of culminating his cross-country adventure at the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on Oct. 14.
In between the two landmarks, Byrne's journey would breeze him through fire station stopovers in El Dorado, Kan.; Athens, Ohio; Ellenboro, W.Va and — two days before putting on the brakes of his Kuota triathlon beauty for the last time — Conshohocken.
Phipps set up the most comfortable cot he could find for his guest at the Washington Fire Company No. 1 for an overnight stay on Friday.
"Somebody knew somebody who contacted me and asked if I could give him a hand," Phipps said. "They're trying to cut his costs as much as possible by contacting the different fire companies across the country. When you're staying at a hotel room for $100 a night at 30 different places you're talking three grand. The little part I can do is provide him with a cot and a couple of meals and help him get on his way."
Phipps planned on showing Byrne the tribute that mourners had crafted from candles, photos, flags and flowers in memory of Officer Bradley Fox along the Schuylkill River Trail in Plymouth.
"I want him to see the makeshift memorial for Officer Fox and explain to him what happened, that we had an officer lost in the line of duty and I'm sure he'll be concerned about that because he's in public service also," Phipps said. "This area took a big hit. We have to take care of our own first, but I'm doing everything I can to help John on his trip also. The man is driving 100 plus miles at a time for 30 consecutive days and that takes a toll on you."
Phipps was also planning to welcome Byrne with a police and fire escort.
The amiable Byrne had just pulled into the town of Smithsburg, Md. on Wednesday afternoon and was looking forward to grabbing some grub and a shower at the local fire house — the comforts were arranged by San Diego-based CAL FIRE captain Tony Hernandez, who was following Byrne in a back-up vehicle — when he took some time out to talk about his expedition.
"I wasn't able to train as much for this trip as I would have liked to," admitted the New Jersey native and avid bike rider. "The idea happened within a few hours and was a reality within a day."
Byrne was proving he would pedal practically to the end of the earth to help his 22-year-old sister Lauren Byrne, who suffered a devastating spinal cord injury in a swimming accident seven years ago.
By embarking on his 36-day trek from San Francisco to New York, the wheelchair-bound community college student's older brother planned to raise enough money on "Lauren's Ride" to purchase her a specialized vehicle with hand controls that would offer Lauren a new standard of independence as a disabled person.
"My sister has always inspired me in my life," Byrne said. "Back in April I had just become a Big Brother and started thinking that I could do more for her. I realized I could ride across the United States and stay at fire stations to save money so that more money could be donated to Lauren. If I met so many people all across the country who would donate just $5 or $10 I would reach the amount of money needed to get her a vehicle."
Byrne casually tossed his intentions onto Facebook that spring evening and within 10 minutes he had an offer from a woman who wanted to create a website for his cause.
Money started pouring in from supporters, even though the project was still just a glimmer in his heart at that point.
The overwhelming response got him to wondering if he wasn't being just a little bit impulsive.
"I had just been promoted to engineer and was on probation and didn't know if I could even get the time off from work," the 26-year-old Byrne recalled. "I also wondered if my body could really sustain the ride for that long. But this took on a life of its own after the Facebook post. And every part of this trip after that has been life-changing for me.
I've seen the most beautiful things from so many people all over the United States," he added. "It doesn't matter what age, what background. The support we've gotten has been unbelievable. I have two quarters on my bike right now donated by children and I told them I would ride with the quarters on there until I reached the end."
Even before he put foot to pedal, a guy he met in a California coffee shop wrote him out a check on the spot for $250, Byrne said.
"And that's how this whole thing has gone from the beginning."
Byrne has been tracking his progress with photos and comments at www.laurensride.org, where donations can also be made.
Between the money he's collected on his route, which he tackles in 100-mile increments, and online, he's raised more than $50,000 for his sister.
"From the beginning we decided that 100 percent of the money would go to Lauren and her independence. As far as the trip goes, we have corporate sponsorships that have donated money for the expenses that come up," Byrne explained.
He was looking forward to the last leg of his adventure in Freehold, N.J., where his grandfather, John Quigg, had served as a firefighter.
"I was named after him but I never knew him because he passed away before I was born," said Byrne, who was anticipating a much-needed rest driving back to the west coast with Hernandez, his right hand man, in the rental car.
"Tony's done the job of five guys, calling up the fire stations for me to stay, and when I could hardly move he called a chiropractor," Byrne said with a chuckle. "I've gone through two or three massages along the way and it's made it a lot easier."
The journey that began out of concern for a loved one has touched him in unexpected ways, he confessed.
"I told my sister in the beginning that my idea was to help her, but I had no idea how it would change my life too."
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Modelling and Simulation
Giuseppe Petrone and Giuliano Cammarata
This book collects original and innovative research studies concerning modeling and simulation of physical systems in a very wide range of applications, encompassing micro-electro- mechanical systems, measurement instrumentations, catalytic reactors, biomechanical applications, biological and chemical sensors, magnetosensitive materials, silicon photonic devices, electronic devices, optical fibers, electro-microfluidic systems, composite materials, fuel cells, indoor air-conditioning systems, active magnetic levitation systems and more. Some of the most recent numerical techniques, as well as some of the software among the most accurate and sophisticated in treating complex systems, are applied in order to exhaustively contribute in knowledge advances.
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Mechanical Dewatering Processes (TAMD)-a Preliminary Study
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Carlo Mapelli, Cristian Corna and Francesco E. Magni
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Zhongying Shi and Xia Wang
About the Authors
Giuseppe Petrone is a researcher in the Department of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Catania (Italy). He earned his BSc in Mechanical Engineering at that school and then his Ph.D. at the University of Marne-la-Vallee (France). His primary focus is the use of numerical methods and modeling in fluid dynamics, applied thermodynamics and heat transfer.
Giuliano Cammarata is a professor of applied thermodynamics and heat transfer at the University of Catania (Italy). From 1994 to 2002 he was Director of the Institute of Technical Physics. He uses CFD tools extensively in his research fields, which include energy distributions in buildings, room acoustics, solar energy, combustion analysis and waste incineration.


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I would be satisfied if he'd just mail me some Adderall.
So how long before some female wacko Kannapolis Intimidators fan writes a "Dear Mr. Home Run King" letter?
Dear Strike-out King........
Well I hope he gets called up and makes the World Series.I hope they are down by 3 runs in game 7 and he comes in and saves the game.I hope immediately after the game some dumbass reporter asks him how it feels and he looks directly in the camera and says "frick YOU Hootie YOU fricking IDIOTIC aMm FOR BRAINS mfricking NO COACHING NO RECRUITING BITCH ASS DORK" Then walk away laughing.I would be satisfied with that.
What you have described is a win. You can only get a save if you go in with the lead.
Dear Mr. Defensive Coordinator King.JONESBORO, Ark. (AP)—Arkansas State defensive coordinator Keith Patterson has resigned less than two months after being hired.Head coach Gus Malzahn announced the resignation in a news release Friday. Patterson had been hired as ASU defensive coordinator on Jan. 4—less than a month after Malzahn was hired as head coach.Malzahn said Patterson is leaving for a job at another FBS program and that a search for his replacement is under way. Malzahn did not disclose where Patterson is going.Patterson spent last season as defensive coordinator and linebackers' coach at the University of Pittsburgh and served briefly as interim head coach at Pittsburgh.
http://www.arkansassports360.com/31866/former-razorbackusc-quarterback-mitch-mustain-solid-in-pro-baseball-debutAnd look who the first to comment is.
LarryC · 11 minutes ago Not surprised to see Zeke Ulrey, the Kansas City stalker and Houston Nutt apostle, was the first to swoop in with a comment. Must be a slow day at the cell phone kiosk.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Mitch Mustain stands alone on the pitcher's mound and paws the dirt with his cleats.It has been eight long years since he gripped a baseball in a competitive setting. Nearly six since the former football star embarked on one of the most high-profile and enigmatic athletic odysseys in college sports history. Almost two since his last shot at being a sports hero.In Arkansas, Mustain became one of the most decorated high school quarterbacks ever to throw a pass; his two impressive seasons of high school baseball were a mere footnote.As a senior in 2005, he led Springdale High's undefeated football team to a state title. Gatorade, USA Today and Parade magazine named him the national player of the year. A future in college and pro football seemed assured.Yet he played only one polarizing season at his home state university before transferring in 2007 across the country to USC — where his football career stalled.
Also, after the past year, this just strikes me as boring. They missed their window of people giving a fuck by about 14 months.
Ya'll ever tried to suck a dick for 20 minutes? It isn't easy.
I hope they skewer Hootie in that thing.
Call me crazy, but I see this having little effect other than making MM look bad. He got the shafting of all shaftings, but we already knew that. This will most likely just be fodder for huggers who thought the kid was a premadonna.


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Title: Harrison county, Indiana, index of names of persons and of firms.
Author: U.S.--Works progress administration--Indiana.
Published: Indianapolis, 1940.
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Title: An atlas of Harrison county, Indiana.
Author: Griffing, B. N.
Published: Philadelphia : D.J. Lake & Co, 1882.
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Title: Illustrated atlas and history of Harrison county, Indiana; containing maps of villages, cities and townships of the county, maps of state, United States and world; county statistics, biographies and history of the county; portraits of public and leading citizens.
Author: Bulleit, F. A.
Published: Bulleit, 1906.
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Title: Biographical and historical souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana.
Author: Gresham, John M., and Company, Chicago, ILL.
Published: Chicago : Gresham, 1889.
Title: ... Early history of Harrison county, Indiana ... .
Author: Holliday, James R.
Published: Louisville, Kentucky : University of Louisville, 1932.
Title: Indiana's birthplace; a history of Harrison county, Indiana ... .
Author: Roose, William H.
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Pentagon officials are among those guessing on the whereabouts of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
The question of where Moammar Gadhafi is followed U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Tuesday to New York, where he paid tribute to victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks as the 10th anniversary draws near.
"I wish I knew. I don't have any information as to exactly where he's [i.e., Moammar Gadhafi] located. The best information we have is that he's on the run. But as to where he is, I don't have any information," he said.
In recent days, Pentagon officials have said they have no information to indicate that the former Libyan leader has left the country, despite speculation that he might have crossed the border into Algeria or Niger.
U.S. aircraft are among the multi-national force enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya, helping Libyan insurgents with intelligence-gathering and other support.
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The defense secretary said Yemen has risen to the top of the list of countries to watch, following calls by al-Qaida there for new attacks on U.S. targets.


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Any bank incorporated by special law of any State, operating under the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, or organized under the general laws of any State or of the United States, including Morris Plan banks and other incorporated banking institutions engaged in similar business, desiring to become a member of the Federal Reserve System, may make application to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe, for the right to subscribe to the stock of the Federal Reserve bank organized within the district in which the applying bank is located. Such application shall be for the same amount of stock that the applying bank would be required to subscribe to as a national bank. For the purposes of membership of any such bank the terms "capital" and "capital stock" shall include the amount of outstanding capital notes and debentures legally issued by the applying bank and purchased by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, subject to the provisions of this chapter and to such conditions as it may prescribe pursuant thereto may permit the applying bank to become a stockholder of such Federal Reserve bank.
Upon the conversion of a national bank into a State bank, or the merger or consolidation of a national bank with a State bank which is not a member of the Federal Reserve System, the resulting or continuing State bank may be admitted to membership in the Federal Reserve System by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in accordance with the provisions of this section, but, otherwise, the Federal Reserve bank stock owned by the national bank shall be canceled and paid for as provided in section 287 of this title. Upon the merger or consolidation of a national bank with a State member bank under a State charter, the membership of the State bank in the Federal Reserve System shall continue.
Any such State bank which on February 25, 1927, has established and is operating a branch or branches in conformity with the State law, may retain and operate the same while remaining or upon becoming a stockholder of such Federal Reserve bank; but no such State bank may retain or acquire stock in a Federal Reserve bank except upon relinquishment of any branch or branches established after February 25, 1927, beyond the limits of the city, town, or village in which the parent bank is situated: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall prevent any State member bank from establishing and operating branches in the United States or any dependency or insular possession thereof or in any foreign country, on the same terms and conditions and subject to the same limitations and restrictions as are applicable to the establishment of branches by national banks except that the approval of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, instead of the Comptroller of the Currency, shall be obtained before any State member bank may hereafter establish any branch and before any State bank hereafter admitted to membership may retain any branch established after February 25, 1927, beyond the limits of the city, town, or village in which the parent bank is situated. The approval of the Board shall likewise be obtained before any State member bank may establish any new branch within the limits of any such city, town, or village.
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original "this Act", meaning act Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, 38 Stat. 251, as amended, known as the Federal Reserve Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see References in Text note set out under section 226 of this title and Tables.
Section is comprised of the first three pars. of section 9 of act Dec. 23, 1913, as amended. The first par. of this section is comprised of the first par. of section 9 as amended in 1917 (40 Stat. 232). The second par. of this section was added as a new par. to follow the first par. of section 9, by act Aug. 17, 1950. The third par. of this section originally constituted the second par. of section 9, as amended by act Feb. 25, 1927, and became the third par. when act Aug. 17, 1950 added the new second par. The fourth to twenty-third pars. of section 9, as amended, are classified to sections 322 to 338a of this title. Section 329a of this title, which was based on par. twelve of section 9, was omitted from the Code. Paragraph twenty-two of section 9, which was classified to section 337 of this title, was repealed by Pub. L. 89–485, § 13(g), July 1, 1966, 80 Stat. 243.
2006—Pub. L. 109–351 and 109–356 amended section identically, substituting "incorporated by special law of any State, operating under the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, or" for "incorporated by special law of any State, or" in first sentence of first par.
2004—Pub. L. 108–386 struck out "(except within the District of Columbia)" before period at end of last sentence of third par.
1952—Act July 15, 1952, inserted last sentence to third par.
1950—Act Aug. 17, 1950, inserted second par., permitting application for membership in the Federal Reserve System by the State bank resulting from a conversion, merger, or consolidation transaction involving a national bank, except where the national bank merges or consolidates with a State bank already a member of System in which case the membership continues.
1935—Act Aug. 23, 1935, § 338, inserted phrase in third (formerly second) par. beginning "except that the approval of the Board of Governors".
1934—Act June 16, 1934, inserted third sentence in first par.
1933—Act June 16, 1933, inserted "including Morris Plan banks and other incorporated banking institutions engaged in similar business" in first par. and inserted proviso to third (formerly second) par. through "branches of national banks".
1927—Act Feb. 25, 1927, inserted second par. which became third par. in 1950. See Codification note above.
Section 203(a) of act Aug. 23, 1935, changed name of Federal Reserve Board to Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Pub. L. 108–386, § 8(i), Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2232, provided that:
Pub. L. 108–386, § 9, Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2233, provided that:
Functions vested by any provision of law in Comptroller of the Currency, referred to in this section, not included in transfer of functions to Secretary of the Treasury, see note set out under section 1 of this title.
Section 6(a) of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1957, eff. June 30, 1957, 22 F.R. 4633, 71 Stat. 647, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, abolished Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
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About Steven Claydon
Steven Claydon makes multimedia installations that explore the associative power of objects and the relationship between documentary and fiction. Claydon's projects—which can include sculpture, video, assemblage, and painting—are often research-based, either examining or challenging commonly held beliefs about history and authority. His works draw from both associations with modern movements and folk artifacts or relics. Displayed in conjunction, the assemblages become intentionally self-contradictory and offer strong statements about colonialism and the permeation of western culture. He also presents these in faux museum-like settings, thereby extending his critical statement to the public institutions that create and display culture.
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1995 Custom Newick Creative Trimaran
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- Year:
- 1995
- Length:
- 42'
- Engine/Fuel Type:
- Twin / Gas/Petrol
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- Spragge, ON
- Hull Material:
- Composite
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"Pados" is an elegant Creative 42 trimaran designed by multihull maven Dick Newick. The beautiful flowing lines, sterling sailing qualities and seaworthiness of the Creative 42 have made it one of Newick's most popular and enduring designs. The wing-style akas greatly increase interior volume and cruising potential. "Pados" is unusual in that she has been fitted with a nicely finished and lightweight interior, which has transformed her into a true racer/cruiser.
"Pados" is perhaps the best example of the Creative 42 design and was carefully built in 1995 by a skilled craftsman to a very high standard. Under her current owner, "Pados" has become an even better yacht. For example, a galley was built and the interior upgraded by Buckingham Marine Interiors in 2008, always with an eye to light weight. "Pados" was rewired and new LED lighting was installed in 2008/2009. A new longer daggerboard was built in 2008 and new hydrofoils were made in 2009. A new and lighter weight carbon fiber boom was installed in 2009.
The rotating wing mast can be raised and lowered by one person, although the crowds this attracts always provide additional assistance! The designer reports that with 7 persons aboard, "Pados" sailed at well over the true wind speed in 10 knots of true wind. Maneuverability under power is excellent with twin outboards.
"Pados" is a stunningly beautiful yacht in excellent condition. She has always been sailed in the fresh waters of the Great Lakes basin. Her owner has reluctantly offered her for sale due to a change in plans. This is your chance to own a beautiful and functional marine work of art.
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Please contact Tom Kintz, CPYB at (+1) 860-572-7767
Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
Boat Name
Builder: Jules Niquet, Quebec, Canada
Designer: Richard Newick
Flag of Registry: Canada
Hull Shape: Displacement
LOA: 42 ft 0 in
Beam: 29 ft 0 in
LWL: 40 ft 0 in
Minimum Draft: 1 ft 6 in
Maximum Draft: 8 ft 0 in
Displacement: 7000 lbs Dry Load
Bridge Clearance: 52 ft 0 in
Headroom: 6 ft 3 in
Total Power: 16 HP
Engine 1:
Engine Brand: Mercury
Year Built: 1995
Engine Model: 2-cycle
Engine Type: Outboard 4S
Engine/Fuel Type: Gas/Petrol
Propeller: 3 blade propeller
Engine Power: 8 HP
Engine 2:
Engine Brand: Mercury
Year Built: 1995
Engine Model: 2-cycle
Engine Type: Outboard 4S
Engine/Fuel Type: Gas/Petrol
Propeller: 3 blade propeller
Engine Power: 8 HP
Maximum Speed: 7 knots
Fresh Water Tanks: (5 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: 2 (13 Gallons)
Number of single berths: 3
Number of double berths: 1
Number of cabins: 3
Number of heads: 1
Navigation center
Fully battened mainsail
Furling genoa
Storm jib
Gennaker/Cruising spinnaker
Inside Equipment
Marine head
Electrical Equipment
Electrical Circuit: 12V
Outside Equipment/Extras
Solar panel
Cockpit cushions
Swimming ladder
Outboard engine brackets
Radar reflector
Mainsail cover
Cockpit cover
Additional Equipment
Launching trailer
Make: 2 x Mercury Outboards
Holding: Composting head
Additional Specifications
- Hull beam (waterline) 3 ft.
- Cabin headroom: 6ft plus
- Interior finished in varnished mahogany, spruce and ash
- New cushions and fabrics throughout
- Interior sleeps 5 x persons in one double berth and 3 x single berths
- Double V-berth in forward cabin, 45in.w x 77in.l, with 4in. "box spring" mattress and inclining head board
- 2 x single berths in salon, 26in. x 75in. with 3in. mattress
- Large single berth in aft cabin, 36in. x 76in. with 3in. mattress
- Numerous storage cupboards throughout
- Dinette table, 24in. x 21in. with seating for 2 x persons
- Navigation area with 29-1/2in.l x 35in.w chart table
- Airhead composting marine head
- Spronk type head at chart table
Galley Equipment
- Taylor 2-burner kerosene stove with broiler, grill and oven
- Ice Box, front-opening, 27in.l x 8-1/4in.w x 21in.h
- Single stainless steel sink with fresh water hand pump
- Stainless steel countertops
- Numerous storage cupboards with wicker doors
Design and Construction
- Wing aka (crossbeam)
- Phil's Foils (Competition Composites Inc) vertically retracting daggerboard (new 2008)
- 2 x Phil's Foils (Competition Composites Inc) hydrofoils in amas (floats) provide dynamic lift (new 2009)
- Kick-up transom hung spade rudder operated by tiller and stainless steel link bar
- Cold molded WEST System construction
- 3 x layers of 4mm veneer and one layer of 9 oz. glass
- Epoxy resin
- VC17 antifouling paint (2009)
- Hulls painted with white 2-part polyurethane
- Decks painted with white 2-part polyurethane with flattening agent and non-skid compound (2009). That deck paint is now in need of renewal.
- Owner reports no known structural defects
- 2008 survey available upon request
Rig and Sails
- Sloop rig
- Rotating wing mast utilizing 5/8in. strip planking
- Phil's Foils (Competition Composites Inc) carbon fiber boom (2009)
- 3 x sets of 3/8in. stainless steel shrouds and headstays with swaged terminal fittings
- Internal rope halyards
- Harken mainsail luff cars
- Lazy jacks
- Profurl 42 series jib roller-furling (new 2012)
- Working sail area 935 sq. ft. plus rotating wing mast
- North high roach square top (1.5 meters) tri-radial Radian NDR 7.5 mainsail (new 2012)
- North 105% tri-radial Radian NDR 6.0 furling jib (new 2012)
- Saintonge Dacron storm jib, 1993, good condition
- Saintonge Nylon DRS with furling sock, 1993, good condition
- Mainsail cover (new 2008)
Deck and Hull Equipment
- 5 x Bomar hatches
- Lewmar 48ST winch for sheets
- Barient 45ST winch for sheets
- Barient 24 winch for sheets
- 2 x Harken 7 winches
- Winch on boom
- 4 x Spinlock XAS double stoppers
- 4 x Spinlock ST single stoppers
- 45lb. Danforth anchor with 35ft. chain and 100ft. rode
- 25lb. Plow anchor with 35ft. chain and 60ft. rode
- Anchor bridle, 100ft.
- Anchor roller
- 3 x large Taylor bumpers
- 4 x dock lines
- Boarding ladder
- 4 x cockpit cushions (new 2008)
- Boat hook
- Hose
- Sunbrella sun shade (new 2008)
- Winter cockpit cover
- 2 x 1995 (approximate) Mercury 8HP 2-cycle outboards
- Engines serviced annually
- 2 x portable fuel tanks, 50 liter total capacity
Electrical System
- 12 VDC electrical system
- Rewired (2008)
- Nautilus battery (2008)
- AC Delco Voyageur battery (2005)
- Alternator on each outboard motor
- Sunforce 30 watt solar panel with 7 ampere charge controller
- Blue Sea Systems Battery Monitoring System
- Distribution panel with circuit breakers, voltmeter and ammeter
- Running lights
- Tricolor light
- Anchor light
- LED cabin lighting (new 2008/2009)
- Lightning diffuser on mast with cable grounded to water
- AquaMeter Saturn compass
- Autohelm Bi-Data knotmeter/log
- Autohelm Bi-Data depth sounder
- Autohelm ST4000 autopilot
- Panasonic VHF radio
- Lowrance GlobalMap 3300c plotter
Safety Equipment
- 2 x Kidde BC and ABC manual fire extinguishers
- 4 x life jackets
- Ring buoy
- Horn
- Radar reflector
- Plastimo 8ft. dinghy (can use outboard from mother ship)
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Grand Island Fire Co. Chief Kevin Koch has announced that this year's Fire Prevention Open House will take place on Thursday, Oct. 10, from 5 to 8 p.m. at fire headquarters, 2275 Baseline Road.
Assistant Fire Chief Chris Soluri, program coordinator, has arranged for multi-agency participation, to include firefighting and emergency medical services equipment from the GIFC and Western New York fire service, as well as area law enforcement contributions.
Meanwhile, firefighter/EMS teams will visit Grand Island elementary schools to offer fire safety tips for home, school and workplace. Students will also receive entry blanks for the ever-popular "Ride to School in a Fire Truck" contest. Eight youths from each school will be selected for this thrilling event.
Another highlight of the program will be a live fire demonstration to show visitors how fast and hot a blaze can develop after ignition in a household setting. (See www.wnypapers.com and click on the "Island Dispatch" tab for photos from the live fire demo at last year's open house.)
The GIFC Ladies Auxiliary will again provide refreshments, including a hot dog roast at a nominal cost for those who bring their appetites, and will conduct a special basket raffle.
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According to Lorraine Carli, National Fire Protection Association vice president of communications, "Cooking is the No. 1 cause of household fire," which makes prevention of kitchen fires a top priority.
Carli notes that firefighters respond to more than 400 kitchen fires every day in the U.S.
"By making kitchen fire safety the theme of 2013 fire prevention week Oct. 6 through 12, we can raise the awareness of the leading cause of fires, unattended cooking, and provide life-saving safety tips to improve the safety of everyone in the home," she said.
She further notes that you should not leave the room when cooking, keep children and pets at a safe distance from hot stoves, keep pot handles turned away from the stove's edge, and don't use water to put out a sudden fire, which will only spread it.
GIFC fire officials will stress these recommendations during fire prevention week and at the Thursday, Oct. 10, open house at fire headquarters, 2275 Baseline Road.


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Tales of an Earth-like igneous rock named Jake
NASA reports that the first Martian rock it has examined with the Curiosity's arm-mounted Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) shows curious similarities to a rare form of mineral found on Earth.
The rock, named "Jake Matijevic" after a JPL engineer who died just after Curiosity landed on Mars, was lasered 30 times on 14 analysis points by the rover in an attempt to discover the process that formed it. The APXS results show that it closely resembles rocks found on the volcanic islands of Hawaii and St. Helena that are formed when relatively water-rich magma is pressurized in an unusual way.
"When you make magma of this type on Earth it takes particular conditions of crystallization," said Edward Stolper of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena during a press conference on Thursday. "Typically it takes place at relatively high pressure, at least several thousands of bars, and also takes place in conditions with relatively elevated amounts of water that is dissolved in the magma."
The process is similar to how the American settlers used to make apple liquor, or applejack, back in the day, he explained: by placing barrels of apple cider in snow drifts and skimming off water as it crystalized, leaving hard liquor behind.
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No, that's not graffiti on Jake – those are NASA's aiming points highlighted
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Torah Commentary-Perashat Vayehi: The Silence Is The Message
by: Mark Kirschbaum on December 28th, 2012 | Comments Off
I've chosen to repost this particular essay for its uncanny relevance to the recent tragedy at Newtown, particularly the final teaching by the Aish Kodesh, prefaced by an additional teaching not in the original, that resonates with the tragedy. One of the points made in the essay, which deals with a textual hint of silence on the part of Jacob when blessing his sons, is that there are times when language is not adequate to the task at hand, but rather there are times when action, not words, is the necessary response. Clearly this is one of those times. Interestingly, the relevant addition to this reading is also based on a lacuna, in this case a missing letter:
Rabbenu Bachye, a late medieval mystic and commentator, notes that in the blessing given to Judah, the blessing that most hints at a transformative "end" to history, all of the letters of the alphabet are present except for the seventh letter, zayin. According to Rabbenu Bachye, the reason is to hint that the world order of Judah will be one that will not seek its victory from tools of violence; in Hebrew the term for "weapons" is "kli zayin", weapons will not be needed, because the ultimate society is to be one free of violence, based on spiritual and intellectual understanding, thus it will be a society of "Yehuda", where the tools of violence are absent, but the letters forming the name of God are present (the Hebrew spelling of Judah, Yehuda, contains the four letters of the biblical name of God). It is time for us to act, to bring about the end of a gun society, and thus directly replacing a society of violence, and its daily body counts, with a society of peace, where children can grow free and with love. (MK)
"Disclosure, however, does not simply result in something disclosed as unclosed. Instead, the dis-closure is at the same time an en-closure…. Disclosure- that now means to bring into a sheltering enclosure…." Heidegger, Parmenides pp133.
Nothing regarding Torah goes unnoticed and unexamined by the commentators, not even spacing on the written line. This week's Perasha (Torah reading) begins, "Vayehi Yaakov B'eretz Mitzrayim"; And Yaakov (Jacob) dwelled (lit., "lived") in the land of Egypt. The authors of the Midrash note that normally there are nine letters between the end of one perasha introducing the perasha that follows, whereas here there are no extra spaces at all. This perasha is thus "setuma", closed off, oblique, which is unique, usually there is some form of spacing in the written text that marks off the beginning of a new portion, here there is none. Is this lack of indentation itself a commentary, does it signify a silence or hidden-ness within the context of the story of the death of Jacob and the beginning of the enslavement of a people?
The Midrashists notice this lack of a gap and give several explanations. First, is that in this perasha the period of the enslavement of the sons of Israel begins, with the death of Yaakov, and therefore, this perasha begins at "half-mast", as a sign of mourning. A second approach in the Midrash links the non-caesura at the opening of Vayehi with a curious passage that appears later in the perasha, one so discordant with the usual tone and content of our Book that one would almost think it a later interpolation. Here is the verse (49:1):
"And Yaakov called his sons over, saying gather round (heasfu) and I shall tell you (v'agida) what shall befall you at the end of days".
The Midrash explains this passage as a furtive attempt by Yaakov to reveal the "end of days", that period when the trials and travails of history finally end. This eschatalogical enlightening that Yaakov attempted was "nistam mimenu" that is, "suppressed", or "closed off from him". So there are two problematic non-closures here, one of the entire Perasha and one specific to Yaakov. What then does this mean? What message did Yaakov wish to transmit, for what reason, and what would a lesson of suppression mean to us later readers?
One approach, that which is most literal to the Midrash's reading, is that the 'message is the suppression'. Some things are best said in their not being said. Rav Tzadok Hacohen in his Pri Zaddik indeed reads here a message of ineffability. There are some issues that are so paradoxical, so sublime, that the only approach is to recognize their indecipherability. The problem is as follows: Avraham was so dedicated to the Land, Yitzchak was forbidden to leave it even during a famine, yet Yaakov, continuously exclaimed as greatest of the Patriarchs, only achieves 'vitality', as our perasha begins, "vayehi Yaakov", in the most degraded of all nations, where women are taken from their husbands, etc. Paradoxically, it is in this most corrupt version of Egypt that the Jewish nation is formed. This paradox recurs throughout Jewish history- it is specifically outside of Israel, the only land where true prophecy can occur, that the Talmud, the central text of Jewish living, is enunciated. This paradox, R. Tzadok explains, is "closed off" to our understanding, but the knowledge of this reality has redemptive value in that even in the darkest moments of exile we can be reassured of total redemption, even as we feel so distant from the holy (there's a wonderful quote from the Pryschischer that although we say that every generation is less than the previous one, on the whole the people are more purified with each succeeding generation. It is a quote worthy of note, since the general thinking is that the more ancient, the deeper the wisdom, the closer to the truth, etc. Here we have a Hasidic counterpart of Vico). The obliqueness of the two "closing offs" is meant to register an innate inability to enunciate certain paradoxes. Setuma then means closed off -to understanding. Yet recognition of this closure is itself a valuable bit of information.
However, there are alternatives to understanding why this segment is "closed off", other ways to situate the meaning of non-disclosure, as a sublime form of disclosure. I would like to submit several possible readings whereby the non-enunciation is itself the successful enunciation. The message that Yaakov wished to deliver is understood to have been transmitted more profoundly in this non-verbal manner; that the transmission is in fact accomplished through the nontransmission signified by the textual "closing off". This is the approach first taken by the Zohar, in I, 234: -
"If you state, that Yaakov did not reveal that which he set out to reveal, then why would the Torah relate a failed communication? Rather, he did complete his intended message, and all that he wanted to relate he revealed and concealed….he was not deficient in even one letter that he intended to reveal…."
Well, if the message isn't explicit, then what is the implicit message? The Kedushat Levi locates the hidden message in the verse cited above. He reads the verse as follows: Gather, and you shall hear- that you are the sons of Yaakov. This message can be understood as a response to what Zornberg would call "blankness", the loss of direction or meaning in society; the message is that of the meaningfulness of our being a part of society. Our meaning is in our interrelatedness. It is our living together that will enable us to hear Gd's beseeching call in search of man.
An interesting variant of the Kedushat Levi's approach is found in the Daat Moshe. After citing the Kedushat Levi's approach, the Daat Moshe alters two words in the verse- he rereads the word "Heasfu", gather, as "heafsu", meaning "make yourself nothing, negate yourselves" (from the word "efes", which means zero). He then translates the word "v'agidah", which we translated above as "I shall tell you", as instead being derived from the Aramaic verb "draw down" (see Targum Unkelus Bereishit 37:28). Thus, reading Yaakov in a proto-Buddhist reading, he explains our verse as suggesting: Through the technique of "heafsut", of self-annihilation, of ego-overcoming, "v'agidah lachem" you will be enabled to draw down spiritual sustenance from the supernal realms, as will be the case universally at the "End of Days".
The Baal Shem Tov is quoted as teaching that the word "yiqra", will transpire (the root of the Hebrew term carries the connotation of something happening that is unexpected, something that befalls one), is the critical term in this verse. The Baal Shem Tov said that redemption, the Messianic era will "chance" upon us, it will take us by surprise, we won't see it coming. The eschatological message transmitted by Yaakov is that of being stunned. All of a sudden, all suffering will end, and the world will become entirely beautiful and meaningful.
The Tiferet Shelomo, following the Baal Shem Tov's reading, urges us to become the cause of this sudden unexpected transformation of the world. The word "yiqra", he explains, also has a legal reference, as one of the forms of the legal acquisition known as "meshicha". Legal possession, title to an animal's ownership, is transferred from buyer to seller, after payment, in one of two ways, according to Talmudic law. You can strike the animal, causing it to move forward, or you can call to it, causing the animal to come towards you ("kor'a lah v'hee ba'ah"). This, explains the Tiferet Shelomo, is what Yaakov wanted to impart to future generations. World transformation can be brought about in two ways, a negative process, and a positive one. The negative route is very familiar to us today from simply reading the news. A sickness brought upon us by the experience of terror and horror from crimes against peoples, a feeling of disgust with the existing situation, can drive people to attempt to bring an end to the proximate cause of suffering. However, world transformation and betterment can be initiated as a result of a positive desire for human improvement, by wills aimed towards the alleviation of world poverty and strife, by those who hear the call of a better existence, even without an immediate cause of discontent. This, Yaakov reminds us, is the call that we must hear to bring about the end of suffering, the end of alienation, the call towards a just and more beautiful world.
In a sense the sets of readings presented thus far deny the "satum", the closed-off nature of a seemingly aborted transmission, in other words, the message was transmitted, we just have to look for it. An alternative understanding of this "closed" passage is presented by the Sefat Emet, who locates the successful message exactly within the "satum", in that aspect of speech which is not-speech, which is "closed off" to speech, which is beyond speech. The Sefat Emet explains that Yaakov was teaching us, in this "closed off speech", both the nature of Exile and the means by which to deal with exile, which is means exile from God's immediacy, from the immediacy of meaning. While it might appear at dark times that meaning, that God is hidden, teaches the Sefat Emet, God's presence is still constant, however, it is God's presence-as-hidden that allows human history as such to proceed (for if God were fully present and revealed there would be no state of exile, exile being defined a alienation of humanity from God) . So, first of all, just the use of the term "aharit hayamim", "end of history", reminds us that there will also be an end to this dark time.
How then to deal with this seeming divine anomie, these historical dark days of being cut off from meaning? The way to deal with exile is implicit in the initial non-caesura, the first satum, the lack of indentation before that first verse that opens the perasha, Vayehi Yaakov B'Eretz Mitzrayim- reading it not literally regarding Yaakov and his journey to Egypt, but read more universally- as the Sefat Emet reads it: In each person's personal Mitzrayim, in the midst of their darkest challenge (The Hebrew word for Egypt, Mitzrayim read as metzarim, dire straits), the way to Life, to "hiyyut", to vitality and a sense of purpose, is to learn to see beyond the apparent existential darkness and emptiness, to learn how to sense that there is a deeper and greater meaning and truth beyond… This is the way of Yaakov, known as the man of truth ("give truth unto Yaakov" -Micah 7:20), truth which is obtained by total faith in the meaningfulness of being. Learn to recognize how the darkness and silence of displacement is just a veil "blocking off" a greater and truer revelation, learn how to see an end to human suffering and indignity. Do not deny the reality of the current condition, but learn to look deeper, find the meaning behind the silence. Ultimately, believe that the silence will be revealed as illusion, as a temporary condition, one which can be brought to an end; this darkness can be surmounted if one learns to see beyond the immediate reality. "Live" even when that is not compatible with the surrounding situation, and thus, become the agent of change that brings about the alternative situation! (In fact, according to R. Zadok, the reason that the term "Veyehi", "and he lived" is paradoxically attributed to Yaakov regarding his years in Egypt, as opposed to his years in Canaan, is because to create the ability for his offspring to survive in hostile environments, he chose to live, in an active manner, rather than simply exist in dreary acceptance of the situation. His "living" in Egypt was activist and conscious, as we must live in our contemporary unjust world).
The Yismach Yisrael recognizes this lesson, of active conscious living, within the Midrashic approach to this text. In the midrashic version of the death of Yaakov and his final words to his sons, as presented in BT Pesahim 56., when Yaakov was ready to reveal the events that will transpire at the end of history, Yaakov goes blank, and thus fails to transmit his message. Afterwards, Yaakov is perplexed, thinking that his failure to reveal the message was brought about due to a flaw in the intended recipients of his message, that his sons, the future tribes of Israel, were not worthy to receive the message and thus the message was blocked. The tribes, however, according to the Midrash, respond "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one" signaling to Yaakov that in fact, they understood the message, that wherever the journey takes them, whatever fate history has in store for them and for the generations to come, they knew that the appropriate response to historical travail, is to recognize the presence of God behind it, of a meaning beyond the immediate reality of a historical situation. Perhaps redemption at that moment in time might have been premature; there was more history that needed to be achieved, but all impending darkness can be faced when one maintains a recognition that even when all sense and meaning seems to be lost, the recognition that there is a deeper current of truth underneath what appears to be mundane or necessary events; that recognition alone will itself be transformational.
The Yismach Yisrael saw the beginnings of a deep utter historical darkness taking shape in his lifetime, but the Aish Kodesh, murdered by the Nazis, unfortunately experienced the most utter darnkness (and saw his son die ahead of him). The Aish Kodesh, writing in the Warsaw Ghetto, was enveloped by a reality of horror and meaninglessness, of a divine silence that no other generation before or after should have to envision. He taught that the lesson of this closed passage, that Yaakov's message was precisely the closed-ness, the wordlessness of the "end of days". Yaakov's "satum-ness" was a relational comment to a future he sensed; Yaakov's failure of speech is itself precisely the message:
"When we perceive that the suffering has reached the level where Torah and the Study Halls are shut up, and this suffering has reached all levels of the people, young and old, then we must strengthen our faith in Gd that the 'end of days' is really near".
In summary, I would like to refer back to the quotation at the beginning of this piece. The deepest disclosure may in fact require for its disclosure its enclosure, disclosure may be inadquate to the message being transmitted, which could only be disclosed- in its non-disclosure. The fact that it is an inversion of Heidegger's conception (where disclosure becomes enclosure) is appropriate, since Heidegger was a collaborator to the most horrific and unspeakable "enclosures" of all time, the silencing of millions of innocent voices as a member of the Nazi party. George Steiner argues that language itself was a collaborator, an accessory to the crimes of the Nazi era, and it is a commonplace that at the same time, language is frequently inadequate to deal with or respond to the enormity of evil that was so large a part of the twentieth century. The cry of the Aish Kodesh is still heard over the odious words of the haters. The non-disclosure in the face of the human situation may remind us that what is required is world transformation by a recognition of truths beyond mere words, manifested by positive change, by praxis, by an activist tikkun olam. So many tears require our attention!


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